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...Paramount movie will be released at 1,000 theaters just before Christmas. Then Kong will go into rehearsal for the sequel, King Kong in Africa. By that time, perhaps, someone will have devised a Kong-size diaper...
...whitewashed cornflakes of the original. He spliced in stock avalanche footage, inserted some cretinous English dialogue (sample: "There's no food left ... What are we going to do?"), added a bombastic score, and cut the original by about one-third. The film is ignoble, demeaning hokum. Nevertheless, Paramount has spent $1 million to promote...
...while writing poems and short stories. Eventually, he worked his way through New York University. A $7,500-a-year fireman 13 years ago, Smith is worth nearly $1 million today, thanks to book earnings and the sale of the movie rights for Engine Co. 82 to Paramount Pictures. He drives to the firehouse in a Mercedes and lives in a $130,000 house in suburban Garrison, but shuns the cocktail-party circuit...
...were plotting missions of their own-to see which would be the first onscreen with a film version. At Shein-berg's Universal Studio, where action and disaster epics (Earthquake, Midway and Airport) are house specialties, Producer-Director George Roy Hill is casting Rescue at Entebbe. Over at Paramount, Paddy Chayefsky has been signed to write the script for 90 Minutes at Entebbe, to be directed by Sidney Lumet. Independent Producer Elliott Kastner, meanwhile, is making Assault on Entebbe by revising a script he already had about an Arab-Israeli confrontation. Says a Kastner staffer: "We're ahead...
...this regard, the establishment of a just and sound world economic order−a paramount necessity, one that includes cooperation in the development of alternative sources of energy−is. a matter to which America must devote her urgent attention. In her leading position in the world economy, America should aim at a fair and farsighted policy that would not become the target of justified criticism by others...